Exactly . So the chicken 🐔 & rooster 🐓 mate & he fertilizers the egg that’s in her ,to make a baby chicken. Well , then why are there thousands of eggs that we can eat ? Does that mean these eggs were missed getting fertilized?
@Joshua Hunter You are 100% correct. I am sad to say, I try to never leave a negative response on anyone's page, but to think someone will think they are learning something here is scary. WOW Becky - your "info" here on chick embryo development is wrong. At the time of laying, hundreds of cells are grouped in a small, whitish spot (the blastoderm or GERMINAL DISC) that is easily seen on the surface of the yolk. *This spot in a fertilized, freshly laid egg is the beginning of the chick.* The germinal disc is NOT part of the yolk. LOOK IT UP on any of the stage extension service 4-H websites for the simple explanation. Not hearsay. extension.psu.edu/programs/4-h/projects/poultry/raising-rearing/viii.-other-on-line-resources/embryo-development/where-chick-life-begins
The “germinal disc” is on the outside of the yolk and becomes the embryo. The yolk is a food source for the embryo. The egg white is a cushion of protection around the food source and embryo. And the yolk and embryo are kept in the middle of the egg white by chalaza.
There’s a lot of really good questions in the comment section but they aren’t answered. Lots of people are coming here to learn new things. The poster only reply’s to the people that tell her, she is wrong. Why is the poster not answering questions?
One correction needed to be noted, that the white is the medium where chick live its life and the yolk is the food source where placenta attached to the yolk, so the baby is always next to the yolk in white medium, hope it clears the concept. Love your video though....
Please stop being so stubborn about this Becky. You can google it right now. The yolk is the food for the chick…we can compare it to a placenta in mammal pregnancies. A developing mammalian fetus is attached to & nourished by the placenta. The white of the egg can be compared to amniotic fluid during a mammal pregnancy. You’ve got it reversed dear. It’s ok to be wrong sometimes.
There are 3 ways, but the easiest way to do this for any breed is to look at the feathers. Boys have short feathers and girls have big feathers, and the difference is very noticeable. Hope this helps!
Wowww! That is fascinating! Man I'm in love with chickens! I have my first 9 babies currently. They range from a 1 1/2 weeks to 2 1/2 weeks old currently and I am in love with the process of them growing. They are Rhode Island Reds and the adult feathers are finally coming in. They are the most beautiful deep rusty red color! I know my move in Rooster, Colonel Sanders (giggle), is going to love them!
Cool!! My brooding hen just layed a batch of fertilized eggs! They’re abt 2 days in. We ordered duck eggs online so the chicks and ducklings can grow up together!
Hi Becky, I would like to know how many eggs can one chicken lay after being fertilized only once? We have one rooster to 17 hens and do not know if all eggs we collect are fertilized or not.
I hatched a grocery store egg by playing rooster sound effects and I. Was amused I definitely looking at eggs different now😂 sad how life can be developed and people be eating eggs for they breakfast I used a incubator so yeah but It’s just sad The yolk is also the good for the chicken not the chicken
Can Becky or anyone else recommend a book for children about this. It doesn't have to be for children just some picture book and more facts that opinion would be useful. Thanks in anticipation
How long after mating with the rooster does te hen start laying fertile eggs? Does the chicken know which eggs are fertile and just sit on the fertilized ones?
Sorry if I'm a little late to the party, but I can answer your question: The hen starts laying fertile eggs about 3 days after her and the rooster mated. It could be the second day after or the 4, I believe. It doesn't always land on the 3rd day exactly. And no, the hen does not know which are fertile or not. She sits on all of them until she either gives up, chicks hatch, or the owner makes her give up. (Some hens are so persistent they will sit on unfertilized eggs until something happens, and during this time the hen barely eats or drinks, putting all her time and energy into these eggs. So sometimes for the benefit of the hen, you have to make her stop) I am not an expert, I am only speaking from my experiences.
I'd like to ask one question.If the rooster and the hen have common gene connection(siblings or mother son or father daughter...does this affect the fertility of the egg?And if theegg is actualy fertile and the chics hatch...are they vanurelable to diseases or leg dismorphia perhaps?
U didn't say how and when the male plays its part... js... is this where I use my imagination??? I'm jus messing around... this definitely clears up which came first joke... no pun intended... these are jokes people... but that was interesting nevertheless
This is like the Sunday School version of the birds and the bees. We just wanted to know if chickens have sex. You just glossed right over that. Just didn't seem plausible with the shapes of their bodies and it's important to know for raising chickens.
So say you have an egg that has been fertilized by your rooster. That egg becomes of age to start laying… do you need a different rooster? I guess what I’m asking is, do you need to worry about inbreeding?
I am disappointed because CC (closed captions) not available in English as it is in Korean language. I want to know what you saying as I am deaf and CC helps me read what you saying.
Becky is absolutely correct when she spoke about the yolk becoming the chick! If the egg is fertilized you will see a noticeable Birdseye spot in the yolk which is the first cluster of cells of that baby chick. She knows her stuff contrary to what everyone else has been told over the years about egg yolks and the whites. Thanks so much for your information, Becky! I sure have learned so much from you 🙏
@@danakarloz5845 I literally can't find a single reputable source for your claims. All of them say that the chick forms on the blastoderm and uses the yolk as its food source. There are zero scientific articles that state that the chick is developed from the yolk. It is merely the source of the nutrients required for embryonic development.
@@JoshWitte hmm 🤔 I will look again and see because I did read it almost exactly as she stated. It was an article from some farm 🤷♀️ and I only looked it up because people in the threads were saying that she was wrong about it. When I read it online in that article I found that she was right. Unless the article was wrong too 🤷♀️ people make mistakes all the time; I can live with being wrong but I cannot forgive some farmers who are in this business giving false information online and to the public.
@@JoshWitte ok so I saw the definition on Wikipedia and it says that the yolk and the ovum proper will become the baby chick when fertilized (embryo). So then the germinal disk isn’t seen until it has been fertilized. 🤷♀️
Would the egg push out the sperm? Sperm is going in and the egg is going out and as it goes out it pushes out anything in its way. Maybe I am not seeing this correctly. LOL.
In the wild, before domestication, chickens only laid 10-15 times a year. Now we get 300 eggs in a year per hen. It's pretty wild. I can't imagine how that doesn't damage them.
When someone KNOWS their teaching site has incorrect information and does not correct it, one who also wrote a book on the topic, Uh..uhuh. I have to unsubscribe. I'm sorry. If you had made a correction sometime in the first year of knowing this, I'd have no issue. Everyone makes mistakes. But we need to be willing to correct them.
The yolk is NOT the chick/egg....its the food for the chick....thats why they can ship them in the mail.After they hatch they can live for 3 days off of the yolk.
I'm soooooo brand spanking new to chickens after adopting a move in rooster but I'm trying to figure out what to do if I want to have a couple of fertilized eggs in case I sadly lose a hen or two. This video is helpful as all get out but I'm still a bit confused because of my totally new status. So if you want to have 1 or 2 eggs fertilized, do you just leave 1 or 2 in the coop and see what happens? Also, how do you know they are fertilized? (Please forgive my ignorance. I just want to make sure I know every single thing I need to before I buy my chics. Hubs and I decided we would start building a coop next weekend and will probably buy in the fall. I am the kind of lifetime pet owner so I want to make sure I do everything right.) Thank you so so much for your understanding. Your channel is absolutely WONDERFUL! I love it! You are such a wonderful teacher!
From my knowledge the eggs can't be fertilized once the hen lays them, the rooster has "sex" with the hen and his sperm cloud gets inside the hen and then she lays fertilized eggs. You can tell if an egg is fertilized if it has what looks like a little flake of pepper in it, dont be worried about being new it's ones of those things you have to learn from hands on experience and making your own mistakes. Good luck to you👍
Becky's Homestead I know what you meant, I watched the whole video and I saw you kindly clarify in the comments. I’m not trying to say anything or rudely criticize I was just saying I liked the video, despite what some of the comments said (specifically about the location of where the chicken grows in the egg), everyone slips up just a wee bit every once in a while, even people who have practiced and worked hard at something for a long time, as human beings it’s a weakness we all share. Some of the people commenting were a little harsh though. Also, is this a new series your making or have you made any *more than you ever wanted to know* videos before. I thought it was pretty interesting.
This was something I've been curious about for a really long time. I love to learn new things and have been around chickens a lot where I live. Just never thought to ask when I had the chance. Thanks
Whaaaat! Absolutely not like this. Yolk is not a chicken!!!! Yolk is just food for that small white spot on yolk which is egg cell/ germinal disc. That cell gets fertilized.
I learned how this works finally. I have been scared to look into it because of my lovely older brothers traumatizing me when I was young. I still have a hard time with eggs.
And to think this all evolved from one cell in the ocean. lol I always wondered how this worked. It's so precise. How does anyone know this and not believe someone created it?
No, it’s just like a human. After sex the egg is fertilized. The hen has a “little sack” special place that holds the rooster sperm for up to 2 weeks so for those two weeks the eggs will be fertile. ☀️❤️☀️
@@BeckysHomestead Thanks for replying.. I'm 60+ and always wondered.. Someone did a video that asked if the cloudy film over eggs can be ingested.. Of course it is as we've been eating it for eons, but it occurred to me, where do chicks come from…but I still have questions.. I've seen videos of people incubating store-brought eggs, and producing chicks?.. How?
You told us how the egg was developed, albeit a little factually incorrect, and not actually how the egg gets fertilized. How does the roosters sperm travel to the egg and fertilize it.
